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World of 7 Dimensions
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Compendium of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  
Essays on Philosophical realism
Cosmology - Astrophysics - Exobiology - Phenomenology
Internal Arts - Physiology - Energy medicine - Biophysics - Psychology
Sociology - Ethics - Political science - Economics - Jurisprudence
Science of History - Mythology - Archaeology - Anthropology
Astronomy - Mythological cosmology
Universalism - Theology - Religious studies
Impressum
Contents:
The Secret of thinking
Conscious emergence
Dilemma of Science
Immortal consciousness - The fifth basic element
The Question for truth & reality
Human consciousness
Laws of the Universe
People are thinking in pictures.
Our consciousness would sink in a hopeless mess
when every stimuli and every information
would be assimilated without reflection.
A clock in the brain is causing a fluent feeling of time.
This tact can be speeded up or slowed down through
strong emotions, drugs, meditation and in danger.
"Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession
would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as
a foundation a priori. Without this presupposition we could not represent to
ourselves that things exist together at one and the same time,
or at different times, that is, contemporaneously, or in succession."
- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
In caitalism every single information is for sale.
Our superficial knowledge is blinding us and
is complicating the integral way of viewing things.
People are manipulative and can be controlled optimally by the media.
Everyone is looking for new outlets
and amusing himself like in times of witch-hunt and gladiators.
Adrenalin is the most powerful drug in the world!
One is always oriented towards the group.
If an individual in the group begins to boo almost everybody boos at the end.
Most of the people on the search for orientation are prone to
extremist ideologists who lure them with simple formulas.
The young people are developing their social and personal identities by
connecting with others or by defending themselves against the establishment.
This means: music, movies, books can help on the one hand to experience oneself
with others in cooperation and on the other hand to differentiate oneself from others.
Idealism is the ability to look at people as how they could be
if they wouldn't be like how they are.
Ideology is a system of world views, fundamental attitudes and values`
tied to a social group or culture. In totalitarian systems political,
unworldly theories are forced on the people.
In a liberal democracy ideologies are turned into money.
Every day the media is preparing the breeding ground
for furious people and of course also for some extremists.
Everything has changed, just not the human thinking.
The Cosmos is a philosophical issue.
Are the limits of the universe the limits of our perception?
Man is born and the world is already there.
Now and then many old writers, historians and politicians were ideologically
schooled and often oriented anti-Semitically, areligiously,
Eurocentrically or racially.
Physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, ideologists, cynics, agnostics
and atheists have got one in common:
they can live with the creative principle.
Some traditionalists are regarding the phenomenon of the modern age
now even online as life-threatening.
Criticism from the outside won't work with fanatics
because it's expected or even willfully provoked.
One way therefore would be internal criticism.
One gets involved in preconditions of the person opposite
and tries to find the mistake.
One gets further with subversive criticism.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer: "We live in a dangerous age.
Man controls nature, before he learned to control himself.“
In our time the results of science enable us up to now a material affluence
in undreamed proportions that favors some people but marginalise others.
So this one-sided progress can also lead to
a gradual loss of sensitivity for man, for the real humane.
With this in mind especially our period of time is expecting that
the "genius" of the woman, who secures the sensitivity for man,
is revealed whatever the circumstances, just because he is human.
We have globalized finance but no globalized humanity.
There are physical preconditions for the application of metaphysics.
Namely with the formulation of the question
if one can examine a reality outside consciousness.
These metaphysical speculations are indeed the most interesting of all.
Like Kant's expression in "The Critique of Pure Reason":
We won't get around our questions
though we won't get adequate answers.
We are living in exponential times. There are so many extremes in the world
that they are hardly imaginable for man.
The asymmetry between matter (physical) and anti-matter (metaphysical),
the cosmic night of creation, the quantum leap of man,
particles that fly through our bodies,
uncountable, strange objects and phenomena,
a new mysterious giant planet in our solar system,
and great clouds of alcohol.
The universe is filled with strange phenomena, and with the most exotic
appearances we often learn the most about the universe.
They are peculiar, inexplicable and unbelievably strange!
Apparently there are inexhaustible supplies of occurrences
which we all have to discover.
Truth can indeed be sometimes stranger than fiction.
In order to comprehend the incomprehensible one has to exploit
all meaningful sources and find the common denominator.
Many cultures, mythologies and people around the world
believe that life in our universe moves in great cycles.
Some refer to these cycles as ages or worlds.
The Cycles of time are like the weather.
As the seasons of the Galaxy pass
everything must learn to adjust to these changes.
All of nature is dependent on the cycle of life, death and rebirth.
For this is the greatest mystery of the universe.
Mindsets
Everything what we perceive is recorded and marked in the brain.
But we don't really have access to it, unless we have associated something
with an emotion or an event.
The sum of our experiences has an influence on what we see day after day.
Because of it everyone is seeing a different world.
Even though we drive on the same street.
Everybody knows where what can be found in the supermarket.
He cuts out millions of details in order to concentrate on the essentials.
The downside with it is: We always think in same lanes.
90% of our actions and reactions are controlled by subconscious memories.
Prof. Allan Snyder:
We are actuated by the subconscious. Decisions are often dictated.
So that we find a way around this complex world,
in our heads we have simplified models of the world
based on our current experiences.
These 'Mindsets' simplify our lives.
When the world changes a bit, it doesn't concern the one or the other,
because they only see what they expect to see.
Autistic people do not have these filter of consciousness.
They see the world how it really is. Differently every day.
The blind mountain climber Andy Holzer
("Balance act - Blind on the top of the world")
has nonetheless a clear idea of how the world looks like around him.
He has climbed the highest mountains on all five continents!
He states: If one cannot see anything from day one then there are two possibilities:
Either you live like a blind man or
you generate your image at the center of sight
so that it works the same like a seeing man.
If you think of yesterday or you think of two years ago on a summer day
then you also have the same pictures in your head
with out the signal of your optic nerve.
That is extremely brilliant! If the people would understand how complex
the human perception works then it's almost no miracle anymore.
People in the western world believe that 80% of our perception
has to work only through the eye sight.
We are wasting our essentially more precise four senses for
the remaining 20% of perception. If this would be true
then it's something exciting when a blind person can climb 1000m high rocks.
In truth I have a 20% loss of senses.
I'm applying all four senses at the same time.
We have to open our eyes!
We all have miraculous works below the skull and you are not using all of them!
That is crazy!
People are not generating any creativity anymore
because they don't feel it necessary to do many things.
For me it's important to place my mental power above my body
and to steer and direct the body.
What's part with the body doesn't matter tuppence with mountain climbing.
You must be able to control with your spirit.
Thinking can be done with out eye sight.
The more precipitous and more difficult the path the more rewarding the effort.
 
The Astuteness of the moment
Surfing is taking place on the surface.
It's about the dialectic between the horizontal and the vertical.
In the act of surfing it depends on staying upright in the vertical.
Surfing (He'e nalu) means gliding on the proceeding wave.
No aggressive wannabe-dominating but rather being One with the flood.
That's why one can differentiate here clearly between religion from spirituality.
Because if a surfer is One with the wave then it more likely concerns
the mystical side, the spiritual level, therefore the religious.
Surfing is a mystical experience.
Man is One with the natural element. It is a fusion.
The wave is heading for its end.
The surfer comes close to the archetype of surfing.
Surfing is a dance, a choreography, as companion on the way of the wave
until its death in the sand of the beach.
The whole grace of this higher standing being is based on his ability
to adjust to the waves which he cannot control.
Henri Bergson says that grace is breath that makes the matter shiver.
The body resists the laws of gravity. He is strolling on the waves.
Here it seems that coincidence and necessity are like synonyms.
No wave is like the other.
Hence coincidence determines how a wave has to be taken.
Because every wave complies with its own extremely precise choreography.
The treatment of the wave occurs instinctively with a souvereign precision.
Henri Bergson calls it as certainty of the instinct.
This means, on the one hand we have chance, where the wave is partaken of,
from which the necessity flows at the same time,
to surf in a certain fashion or else one would fall.
The sophistic philosophy is the wisdom that lets one take the right wave.
Because the surfer has to be able to read the ocean.
He must have the prudence and the intuition in order to discern the right moment.
"One isn't acting due to ignorance
but one is acting in ignorance." - Aristotle
This means, there's an experience which supersedes knowledge
and sets in at the precise moment in which one acts
so that one cannot be mistaken in the end.
It's intuitive science of the right moment.
The feeling for the right opportunity which thus doesn't recur anymore.
We are intrigued by this spectacle because at the same time it's unconsciously clear
to us that we are present at the last moments of a dying element.
For the surfer the meaning of his being, his only goal, in there lies in
overcoming such monster waves.
He considers his fate as inseparably associated with the waves and the ocean.
The surfer is regarded as a heroic figure, a demigod,
who takes up the force of nature, a sea monster.
Surfing is a recollection of mythology.
_____________________________________________________________________________philosophy of biology
The Secret of Thinking 
"Many People are educated enough not to talk with their mouth full,
but they dont worry about talking with their head empty.“
- Orson Welles, director, actor, author
Mankind is a very special remarkable form of matter
that can do something what nature usually never does: thinking about himself.
Genius doesn't just consist of Heureka-moments.
Talent isn't congenital but is developed.
Genetic and extern influences like the environment
(family, school, friends, surroundings, feeding, media etc.)
don't have an effect on us next to one another but they interact.
We have influence on our environment and on the other hand
it can result in our genes.
Science has supposed that intelligence and talent were set in advance
in the genes to a definite extent.
Lecturer David Schenk contradicts: If the outer conditions are beneficial
everybody can be a genius. Only who works to the limit rises above the crowd.
Manipulation and the power of sympathy
People are very easy to be manipulated.
With friendliness without ulterior motive we can accept a favor,
but we should just look out if a favor is demanded afterwards.
The nature of manipulation lies in the fact that it is hidden.
Otherwise one would say, this is a suggestion.
Manipulation is always for the own advantage.
Sympathy is one of the greatest manipulators.
Sympathy sees to it that we buy something which we don't really want.
We all think that we are individuals. In many points we are not.
From a quality of an object we catch up with another quality.
We create comparative values. There's a principle that is to say social reliability.
That means: When many people do something then that cannot be bad.
For the people it's more important to possess something than to use it.
Getting it is more important than having it.
The excited anticipation to get it is clearly bigger.
Women are more empathic with lies.
They rather are lying so that the others feel better.
Men are rather lying in order to create themselves an advantage.
Criticism of modernism from a neurobiological viewpoint
The people are always questioning themselves
where they come from and where they go.
The scientists of all ages have tried to get onto the origin of life
on the basis of models of evidence.
They have cut up the substance, they have explored the microcosm and the macrocosm, and still they look at life from only one perspective
and chains of interpretation of realities followed another.
The most important thing though have been set aside:
the creator of matter, the spirit,
the 'blueprint' and information that forms the substance.
They only see subjective parts of truths because the objective truth is an
indefinable state of mind that comes from every conceivable parts of truth.
"The history of knowledge is a great fugue
in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge." - Goethe
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist states more precisely, how one can describe
better both sides of our thought and our fantasy and shows
that during the history of civilization our society has a strong tendency to
the abstract, the decontextualized, the united, the virtual, the mechanical,
the isolated and the lifeless (but the useful, the unambiguous, the perfect and
the realizable), with what we cope with in the world of objects and subjects
while we find it difficult to cope with what is about our right half of the brain.
There is the recognition of the individual,
the contextual, the unfold, the implicit, the networked and the open, the physical
and the living in the foreground which although evades all exact regulations
and all complete realizations or certainties and
allows only imprecise knowledge, creative doubts and notably no absolute control.
We need both abilities:
The clarity of thinking and the precision of language, which is possible by
the left half of the brain, but also (and in the face of deficits perhaps even more)
the skill of thinking in relationships and all in all.
With knowledge and perception it's always about relations between things,
and perhaps it applies to any form of existence,
like some aspects of quantum physics suggest.
When we look at something this happens with an eye on
similarities and differences to other things.
Depending on with what we compare things
certain aspects step out and others step back.
The model that is based on our conception determines what is noticeable.
If it's the case that our understanding is an effect ofmetaphors
which we use then it's just as valid that it is its cause:
our understanding determines the selection of a metaphor
on the basis of those what we make out.
The chosen metaphor is a cause as well as an effect of relation.
Hence it reveals oneself, how we think of ourselves
and our relationship with the world,
in the metaphors which we choose unconsciously in order to talk about it.
This decision hardens further our partial view of the topic.
Paradoxically we seem to be forced to understand something sufficiently
- including ourselves - in order to chose the appropriate model
before we are able to understand it. Our first jump determines where we land.
So every realization is preceded more or less by a successful intuitive jump
that cannot be avoided.
It proves oneself as exceptionally fatal in logocal positivism
which is always applying mechanistic metaphors in his insistence on "facts"
and is not understanding others.
However there are analog performances in theology and other sciences.
This lack is making out a big part of frustration which we experience
when we follow all the thrilling discussions where again and again
many clearly fall behind the imaginativeness of their interlocutors
and have to confine themselves to polemics.
"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember;
involve me and I'll understand." - Confucius
Neurobiologist Dr. Darold Treffert says:
"The cells of our brain replace themselves incessantly.
Our present nerve cells (neurone) are different from those
which we yet had two years ago.
So it must be well-ordered that the electromagnetic pulse,
which stores our memories, are held further on neurochemical ways.
We're just beginning to understand
this complex interaction of chemistry and electrical charge."
Nothing in the universe is as complex as our brain.
The secret of thinking keeps human brains busy for centuries.
It is a profound scientific realization that we with our trillion nerve cells
have high abilities of a genius or an autist.
But our brain deliverately surpresses them.
We know that the memory is encoded in synaptic carriers.
Prof. Gerhard Roth from the University of Bremen thinks
that our cerebral cortex as seat of our mind shifting memory
contains half of trillion contact points/ synapses.
Every synapse can accept ten different stages of activity.
That are 10 x half trillion!
And by combinatorics we can store all molecules in the universe!
Our efficiencies of remembrance are in the main completely infinite.
Where others see a world of endless diversity
palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris from Cambridge University
recognizes efficient organs that evolve over and over again.
That is called convergent evolution.
Birds and bats have developed wings although
they are separated over 300 million years of evolution.
"Most things in biology don't just work really well,
they work extremely well!
Our eye in principle could discern a single Photon.
Our ears even hear warmth roaring.
Noses could smell a single molecule.
Are you aware what that means?
We have reached the limits of the physical universe."
Morris has the theory that evolutionary convergence as it were
constitutes the master plan for life in our galaxy.
Therfore on earthlike planets the upright walk, the precision grip,
the use of tools and even intelligence develop systematically.
In the last years scientific references to extraterrestrial life
have increased more and more.
It's not a coincidence that we look like how we look.
It's not a coincidence that our CPU is far away from the ground,
so that it cannot be underfooted.
We have sensors for the oscillation of the sea of space and time in which we live.
We have sensors for the light of stars on which we live.
If we could verify extraterrestrial life, then we would have very strong evidence,
that the initial philosophical hypothesis, that nature is one unit.
All of it would be one big story.
_____________________________________________________________________________philosophy of science
Conscious Emergence
The biggest prejudice which we have is knowing it all.
Every now and again new discoveries are made.
Though many people tick it off factually,
the evident fine tuning of the universe is simply fact.
Without it we wouldn't exist and we couldn't do some thinking about it.
Science is about exploring, finding and understanding.
Many of the most amazing and successful scientific discoveries
of the past few decades have come from NASA's Planetary exploration program.
The Earth rotates around the Sun,
the sun rotates around the Milky Way, around the Central Sun.
Stars are flying next to each other aslike people are having talks next to each other.
When the Hubble-Telescope was pointed at the Orion it was looking deeply into
the Eagle Nebula. It appeared enormous gas towers in which new stars are created.
In each cloud gases are crowded with such intense energy
that it comes to nuclear fusions. In this way new stars come into being.
When the hydrogen-supply of a star is drawing to an end
hydrogen doesn't merge anymore but the nucleus of helium to other elements
- calcium, potassium and carbon.
If no reactions are possible the star fades out and spins the elements incurred
in a spectacular gas cloud into space.
Our body is consisting of exact these elements. We literally are Stardust.
Our planet is considered as the place in the Galaxy
where Universal Life can flourish without hindrance.
Some are surprised at this coincidence
and suspect that a providence or a creator are in play,
that everything is predestined as stated, allowing it to become a complex universe.
A religious explanation is of help to such people.
Though this is also a scientific question,
Some cosmologists have found a solution for the issue of fine tuning.
But it requires a confession of faith which is usually demanded only by religion.
If our planet isn't the only one in the universe,
if it's just one in a billion and if trillions of other galaxies exist,
couldn't it be then that our universe is one of many?
Their natural constant could have been determined
completely different by their Big Bang.
De facto is: that is an unbelievable expansion of our horizon
on the question 'Are we alone in the universe?'.
It's a great triumph of measurable science that today
we can determine exactly that life in other galaxies exist.
Scientists today have calculated that alone in our galaxy
there must be around 39,000 intelligent life forms!
The Laws that explain how planets come into being around other stars
are valid and universal in the whole cosmos.
That is one of the elements of science.
We and our environment consist of every atom
that came into being through the burn up of an enormous star.
This tremendous transformation of matter have also taken place
in other solar systems.
Whenever a fusing of two galaxies leads to constant birth of new stars,
astronomers recognize that at the bottom they are just voyeurs of the creation.
"One can summon great confidence from it that
after all what we found out scientifically
we live in a part of the universe where we are wanted. We are well wanted.
And Stars are not dangerous. Stars, those are the Forget-Me-Not of the Angels."
- Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch, cosmologist & philosopher
In order to solve the problem with the Big Bang scientists were trying
for a long time to unite the universal theory of relativity with the quantum theory.
The theory of relativity describes the macrocosm,
the world how it evolves since the Big Bang.
The quantum theory in comparison describes the microcosm,
the elements of matter.
In the endless dense and hot point of the Big Bang
macrocosm and microcosm were connected with each other.
The String theory gives the answer to the question
why the physical universe is how it is.
This radical theory is based on a simple assumption:
Everything in the universe, the earth, matter but also elemental forces, like
gravity or electricity are consisting of incredibly tiny vibrational energy strings.
The Big Bang was an autotelic cosmic seed,
and the universe is an organism for cultivating Consciousness.
"The issue of consciousness today constitutes the question for the creation
of our universe - the outer limits of human striving for realization." - Thomas Metzinger
"If you want to find the secrets of the Universe,
think in terms of Energy, Frequency, and Vibration" - Nikola Tesla, inventor
Emergence
Natural scientists and philosophers are often talking about emergence.
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way
complex systems and patterns arise out of
a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels and of complex systems.
In a system quality come into being on the macro level
that doesn't show particular components for itself.
There are two examples in physics:
Gases have properties such as pressure and temperature,
which are not measurable with individual atoms.
And in quantum physics there are totally different legalities in force
than in “classical“ physics of which laws determine our daily life many times.
That's why it's plausible that human consciousness works after this logic.
Emotional components
In our turbulent world of work and privacy increasing dynamics and
increasing complexities are emerging at the same time.
They cause that people are feeling more and more insecure,
having less transparency, losing track of what's going on,
losing one's bearings, getting out of control.
This leads to disturbances of fear or hysterical idealizations.
Up to 33% of a concern's productivity are taking place by culture.
If we have a good culture we have high productivities and healthy people.
The doctors say that the issues are
in mobbing, in inadequate esteem, in bad communication.
That's why the logical thinkers in the leadership have to learn more about
the psyche of the people and then
take the emotional components into consideration.
We only can try to strenghten our resources, our skills and then
make appropriate conditions which are at school,
at the workplace and in the organization of culture .
Transcend and include
In the first half of life it's about,
to work and to fight tooth and nail for a place in the world,
to prove oneself and to accomplish something.
That has a lot to do then with argument, emancipation and dissociation.
The key function for the second half of life
is to let go the accomplished, to transcend it.
A recurring formula is “transcend and include”.
Though it sticks out that here and there the emergent movement
got stucked in new antithesis and negative definitions.
Quite a lot of the protagonists have not yet reached
the questions of the second half of life.
The difference between fundamentalism and conservativism is clear.
Regarded in this way emergence would be a conmanship,
if with it a new tradition is meant in dissociation from everything old,
the exchange of modern and postmodern dogmas and certainties
or a new clearly defined method or style,
and not for instance the necessary attempt
to lay oneself open existentially to the hazard of the new and unfamiliar,
to pay the price for the own modification and to expand the own inner limits.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for
the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and pilot
Humanitas and the issue of democracy
Our democracy is a learning process without teacher.
Democracy is not a rehearsal into the good, it's the establishment of openness.
The opening of Europe to the West occured more in music than in literature.
The biggest problem of a democracy is the absence of a master.
This issue of learning without teacher is as old as the writing about
the community De re publica, a work concerning theory of state,
from the Roman politician and philosopher Cicero.
"History is the female teacher of life."
At that time an anonymous female teacher was already conceived
who tells us the essentials in her way.
Provided that there is a culture capable of learning.
In ancient times this was attempted to confiscate through education to Humanitas.
"Educated is the man who is ready to learn a lesson in history."
There's an immediate rope of freedom and there's a traditional rope of religion,
which is part of history, that are colliding with the passage of time.
The lesson of this history is difficult to learn from.
After the world war a feeling has developed that the "raw material" grassroots opinion
must be refined through a filter system (system of representation).
Since the Sumerians people have legitimized violence on high level
in order to exclude the "Barbarians" from the city state.
Work out of information
Education requires especially and initially
the instinctive resistance of surplus information.
True-life stories are passed on at one's own discretion.
We get used to a time-saving way of talking that are very short-tactical.
Our daily quota of information are mixed.
Incidents are turned on and off like on a big mixing desk.
We live in a time that makes it very hard for us to work out the long ropes and lines
which we would need as a whole society in order to explore one's feeling in the future. Changing one's mind or opinion and changing the life
are two separate fields of learning.
Not everyone succeeds in designing his policy in the rhythm of modification.
Fear of the unfamiliar
Xenophobia is the anxiety of being strange.
People are able to get rid of fear of the unknown.
The older generation is nearly completely incapable of
improving xenophobia as human constant.
The feeling of uneasiness in a position,
that they cannot estimate one hundred percent, is familiar.
No matter in which stage of civilization we are,
it is accessed and retrieved in the media at the push of a button.
The feeling without teacher and without lines causes a situation
where people take decisions too quickly,
feel disoriented and are ready to run after any kind of medial hypes.
It's part of learning process that mechanism of fear must be taken under control.
That is Habitus-education in higher level.
Artistic dimension
The realization that information can be taken up very easily
and that change of opinions can be carried out very simply
stretches back until the medieval doctrines of virtue.
The virtues began with the process of annexation.
On Thomas of Aquin one can read up that
virtue is then virtue when the good or the beauty and the improbable is easy for us.
In other words:
An artistic dimension must be involved in man itself.
The more improbable is that what must be more trained.
 
The passivity of mere supporters, Bigmouths and blinkered specialists
"I can because I want to, what I have to.“ - Immanuel Kant, philosopher
The world is regulated like never before.
One is allowed to smoke only in cages, in smoky boxes of glass.
Inside there are the addicts, crammed in, separated like the leprosy sick.
And the kids are attached to the glass and ask Mamma:
"What kind of humans are they?"
"They are no humans", she says, "they are smokers!"
If one would ban smoking on the streets
there are some who would start with it now more than ever.
They smoke and cycle with out helmet!
We are living in a media society. The media is setting the rules.
The power of Internet, TV and literature to influence the masses
cannot be underestimated and can easily trump the logic and reason of science.
The freedom of the media is also an imposition which we have to bear.
Because the media are like little kids who let off steam so long as
till they get a strong slap.
There is burlesque malicious agitation.
For journalists the performance on TV is more decisive than the facts.
Literature is often overestimated.
They write a lot about negativism and make money out of it.
The inner turmoil, which oneself doesn't have, can be learned with it.
"Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in
open contrasts in his time and to say loud: No!“ - Kurt Tucholsky, journalist, author
The opinion of the majority influences us stronger than we imagine.
Those who rather are oriented towards the group
or the social others have a biological survival advantage.
Psychology can say that when we judge or
make purchase decisions we get one's bearings by others.
The majority society believes that book learning alone
leads to understanding cleverness.
They may live on ivory towers beyond the elbow-society
and get used of talking about things without experiencing it as a Whole.
Imagine as from now You are getting 500€ more salary.
You are happier until You hear that all the others are getting 1000€ more.
One has got more than before and is still pissed
because one is comparing themselves with others all the time.
Who would not go without the 500€ voluntarily if he achieves with it
that the others don't get 1000€? This is our psychology of money.
As the state theorist de Montesqieu has expressed it already in the 18th century:
"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult,
for we believe others to be happier than they are."
"What's the result of all your results at the end?
Remorse is reason that comes too late.
The most important result of all education is self-knowledge."
- Ernst von Feuchtersleben, philosopher, doctor, essayist
Many of the so-called friends of science deceive themselves on a high level.
With the principle "An eye for an eye" they are only looking for differences,
fixated on the defects of their opponents and rarely admit what they don't know.
There are unimaginative hypocrites everywhere who think that capitalism
is more important than democracy and they say that democracy can be like
two wolves and a sheep, deciding what they have for dinner.
Some head-nodders and small-minded persons
are hiding their prejudices between the lines
and they over-simplify, generalize, stigmatize, demonize, exoticize or idealize
the unknown in the most stupid way.
"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius 孔子
"Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness,
making conscious experience at once the most familiar and
most mysterious aspect of our lives." - Susan Schneider and Max Velmans
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Dilemma of Science
"Science is a dogma. It became dogmatic.
You can notice it on their reactions when scientists are confronted with
adjacent fields. Then they raise up their hands,
either they run away or they close their eyes and say
the bad dog can't see me anymore." - Ernst Senkowski, physicist
In principal science is based on one universal assertive claim.
That means, scientific statements are in relief against bare opinions,
by not just being understandable "today" and "here", and being ideally valid,
but also by being comprehensible tomorrow.
So with that it is obliged to a certain "claim to the absolute truth".
Science is a long rank of corrected mistakes.
Its history is often told as a series of moments of sudden insights,
as an ultimate triumph of rational thinking. In truth though
power and passion, rivalry and sheer coincidence
have played equally significant parts.
Physicist Max Planck who originated quantum theory
have recognized that limits are set for science.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
We must assume behind this force the existence of
a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck
Albert Einstein thought, "We are only limited by our imaginations."
The freedom of science, research and apprenticeship is protected by fundamental law. Should science still impose on limits?
Every basic scientific insight can be used for the good or the bad.
In basic research one can impose hardly on narrow limits.
The human thirst for knowledge there is just too big.
But in applications one can and must confine oneself certainly.
The limits are there where it is getting too cruel, too expensive,
or morally irresponsible in another way, like e.g. the mixing of man and animal
or the development of biological weapons.
Some apply their laws to an object that is out of their reach.
Astronomers discover the "Where from" and the "Where to" of the universe -
though they cannot explain the "Why".
Methodical atheists like Dawkins and Hawking give themselves the meaning of life.
There are impressive figures who have counted on heroic scepticism
with agnostic theories. Although one should also have the courage
to tackle the futility of one's own existence.
The European culture, the identity, has resulted from the encounter between
Israel's monotheism, the philosophical reason of the Greeks, and the Roman law.
"The priest has often been send flagrantly for so-called atheists
when the tumour was at the final stage. If one is an atheist or not can be said
only on the last metres." - Harald Schmidt, entertainer
What is “coincidence“?
Stephen Hawking's opinion, that life and the universe
came into being only by chance, is a mixing of statement sections.
Even if a theory of quantum gravitation could describe the creation of the universe
it would be completely independent of the question
if there's a creator who has concocted it all.
Like physicist, theologian and philosopher Hans-Dieter Mutschler says,
it's coincidentally a predicate with two digits: It needs a frame of reference.
What is accidentally in terms of reference of physical law
- because it's not foreseeable - is therefore long since not accidental
in God's frame of reference.
World view Evolution
It is like overstepping the boundaries when natural scientists derive
a "conception of the world" from the results of scientific research.
The conclusion that certain results of the research refute the view of God,
neither compelling nor plausible in view of the latest scientific understanding.
According to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein
natural sciences are compatible with faith.
It's extremely important that one distinguishes between "fact evolution",
"evolution theory" and "world view evolution".
The "fact evolution" refers back to the common genealogical tree
of all living beings. There are countless supporting documentations for it.
The “evolution theory“ concerns oneself with mechanisms which are responsible for
its process, and according to present findings these are not anymore just
mutations by chance and natural selection by a long way.
The “world view evolution“ is the perception that all living things and especially
human beings are an accidental by-product of a blind godless process.
Only this third meaning of the term evolution
is in sharp conflict with Christian faith.
Fanatism & religious hypocrisy
“Theology is useful for fundamentalism“ - Peter Antes, religious scholar
These days there is nothing more emotive to debate than religion.
Religion has always been a catalyst of conflicts. It was misused as a pretext.
The simple logic reads: Who fights against the devil has God on his side.
Even the Dala'i Lama writes in his Work
"The book of humanitarian reasons":
"Even today people are killed on the basis of hatred and religious hypocrisy,
cities destroyed and societies unbalanced.
Therefore it's not surprising that many people question
the meaning of religion in our society."
The American Bush-government reacted on fanatism of terrorists
with a kind of self-fanatism.
Many studies show that in the past 20 years there were just as many
non-religious suicide bombers as those who do it for religious reasons.
Merely six percent of all terrorist acts in the years between 1998 and 2004
were religiously motivated.
Not atheism and not religion drive the bloody emotion but fanatism.
One says, we need a common protest of all religions
against those who pervert religion.
Debates
Bischof Gerhard Ulrich: Those who stand by their religiousness
are expressing with it that not everything what belongs to their lives
is taken up in what they see and what is comprehensible.
The issue of our society is that we run arguments too rare,
that we are even too less offensive in what is of importance to us
as social power, as a force that helps form the society,
and also what we're able to achieve.
That's even obvious and is noticeable for a great many people.
Atheism itself can also be discovered in different game forms.
It is a debate with the phenomenon of religiousness.
In Psalm 90 it says:
So teach us to number our days that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
In this respect it's a question of worldly wisdom to look into this matter.
Experts are concur: The thesis that religion is moving back further and far
from modern society has to be contradicted.
Teschner, head of urban development, claims: "We must ask ourselves
if the thesis of secularization has ever been valid", and sees that
religious movements took over from labour movements as protest associations.
People were looking increasingly in religious communities for answers on
typical municipal issues like poverty and loneliness
and not anymore in left ideologies like marxism.
The poor follow those who can offer them something.
Mother Teresa said: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.“
"Conservative" Pentecostal churches with their "reactionary gender roles"
have propagated values like abstinence, diligence and discipline.
This leads to a provable social improvement of life situations of their members.
When Goethe's daughter-in-law was taken ill in the year 1820 he wrote to a friend:
"I can't say anything else but that I hold on to the Islam."
When the Cholera spread in 1831 Goethe commented similarly:
Nobody here is able to give advices to anyone.
Decide what to do, individually, we all live in Islam.
No matter in what way we embolden ourselves."
Goethe was living with awareness after a basic doctrine of Islamic faith.
Psychology reveals the shaky sense of self-esteem of religious critics.
There is aggression towards believers on many levels,
in hurtful narcissism of the modern man
as well with religious fanatics who use their religion without living it.
Why is it difficult for many "tolerant" people to tolerate religion?
The resistance against religion is irrational aggression.
The psychodynamics of irrational, uncontrolled affectivity must be examined.
In day-to-day this is often the foundation of a hostile attitude towards religion
and therefore makes a rational debate impossible.
The first narcissistic insult is the obvious vividness of contemptuous religion.
Neuroscience have cleared up that most forms of aggression are preceded by
a psychic pain, and aggression is used for its resistance.
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Immortal Consciousness - The fifth basic element
Incorporeal consciousness
Dutch Heart- and Near-death-specialist Dr. Pim van Lommel
have researched on 344 patients together with his Team
in ten different hospitals in Holland.
He achieved the scientific evidence for incorporeal consciousness.
Patients with a heart-attack do not have a functional brain after 50 seconds.
But they say, that they have a higher consciousness, with self-identity,
with own thoughts and feelings, sometimes with a life-review.
Neurologically the brain is defined as a control center and storage cell,
though van Lommel's studies show something different.
The brain doesn't manage consciousness, but it is his receiver.
Therefore Near-death experiences apply as a real occurance
in another dimension.
Our consciousness leaves the body and sets off.
These experiences seem to be the same everywhere.
A tunnel and a light at the end- then the thought about one's own death.
Out-of-body experiences give researchers the decisive reference
that consciousness is not bounded to the body.
But only every fourth redux-patient is able to remember these experiences.
It's also fact, that the whole body loses its weight ( 21 grams ),
right after the fulfillment of death.
People with near-death-experiences are often telling about a tunnel
where bright, not sparkling light shines.
Physicians know such tunnel-effects from space:
If an object moves at the speed of light the light rays concentrate themselves
from the front so that the sides appear dark.
Even other serious scientists presume that immortal consciousness is
a basic element of the world just like space, time, matter and energy.
Doctor and near-death-expert Walter van Laack is demanding
an integral way of viewing things like near-death-experiences.
Van Laack is requesting doctors and scientists not to reduce
near-death-experiences just on the physical or the material.
"Science alone is explaining parts at best but not the complex whole
of a near-death-experience - and that even incompletely",
explains the specialist of orthopaedics who published his scientific researches
to the topic near-death in several books up to now.
Every near-death-experience goes off individually and is experienced with
different intensity. Nevertheless there are numerous, always identical elements.
Van Laack: Out-of-body-experiences outside the body are scientifically useful
particularly then when the occurrences, which are perceived from people
in their out-of-body-situation, are verifiable in hindsight.
So when for example in the neighboring room a football game was running
and later the person is able to talk about details of it.
This can be verified and is scientifically not explicable.
Is there any other possible explanatory model?
Van Laack: People who are not restricted in one's thinking on other fields
are missing. With a more integral point of view on scientific realizations
in future there will be a different view on near-death-experiences.
Some people are interpreting their near-death-experience with something religious
and some are describing their considered light as God for instance.
It rather depends on if they are religiously brought-up
or which cultural experience they have made.
The person affected wants to interpret somehow their near-death-experience.
The proof of God cannot be raised of course with near-death-experiences.
But yet that an "afterwards" is to exist
if during the near-death-experience highly complex experiences are made
eventhough the brain activities are long since at zero.
The untouchable inner crux of mind is the center of our being.
Faith in rebirth causes that environment and daily life is perceived differently.
The European philosophers of the Enlightenment since then couldn't distinguish
the diversity of occultism and tried to stow it all in the drawer.
The hard part of it is that these phenomena are not described uniformly
between magical treasure seeking, between devoutness,
between reflexion on technological modernity, between romanticism, victorianism
and old motives of telling. There are various aspects that are significant.
It is part of religious history, part of ethnology outside of Europe.
At the moment where Europeans start to take phenomena outside of Europe seriously they see that the clarification isn't as easy as they imagined.
Psychologists say: Occultism is self-help of the people
to that science fails in the Enlightenment.
For the famous authors Augustinus and Martianus Capella
who defined the 7 Liberal Arts and shaped essentially
the thinking of the West in the 4th century
the acquisition of knowledge didn't consist in general knowledge at school;
the direction was rather a philosophical or rather a religious
(preparation of the soul for the rise into the intelligible world
based on the doctrine of new platonism).
"Crede, ut intelligas - Believe so that you may understand"
Divine energy
Heaven is not just a place but also an existence with God in completion.
Man leaves time on death. The most common view is purgatory.
It means that through repentance, through spiritual development and rebirth
the missing must be made up for it and put to rights by God.
So the question of guilt, particularly the question
which importance the individual takes,
distinguish between eastern and western imaginations of faith.
What man should realize with the philosophy of the Great Whole
is that what is not transitory.
His identity is not the repetition of life to life
but the eternal unchanging godlike nature in him.
In this view it's not the individual soul
that goes from a body to the next but it is the divine energy
that expresses itself in different individual life forms.
The thought of rebirth
in the sense of transmigration of souls and the re-embodiment
is diametrically contrary to the Christian faith.
The reason of existence of mankind is the creation of man in God's image.
The individual man, the person is unique and doesn't get lost after death.
Man should live his life, not because he requires a certain past,
and also not because a certain future is necessary.
"For monotheism the uniqueness of life follows from the uniqueness of God.
For Christianity death is the point where man stops to exist
in dimensions of space and time,
and beyond is timelessness." - Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, theologian
Christians are living with the hope of the resurrection.
They don't believe in re-embodiment but they believe that
man will be transformed after death and be in good keeping with God.
If the soul falls into sin on his period of suffering and then get lost,
he will be reborn again in hell. This hell is part of our present world.
"Religion has two roots:
the one is to compensate exactly this randomness and finitude of human life,
the pain, the sickness, the unfulfillment.
the second is the ecstatic experience.
The experience of beauty, of lust, joy, of absolute oneness and salvation.
And from both of these together, from unfulfillment of life and
from experience of perfection and complete fulfillment Utopias are formed.
Utopias that are not realized yet,
but it can be realized in the mental power of imagination.
Art is made out of it, Religion is made out of it."
- Michael von Brück, religious scientist
Belief in the supernatural
is seen as an irrational expression of human conflict.
"In our culture spirits are probably symptoms of suppression.
In other cultures spirits are natural elements of reality.
In our reality that is shaped through the framework of understanding
there are no spirits and ghosts.
But in their view a lot of things don't exist - there's no sense and no meaning.
And even no finitude of existence. Everything is ousted."
- Herbert Pietschmann, Physicist
Belief in spirits corresponds with an initial construction
of human feeling and understanding.
"There are experiences in the spiritual field that can be important for the people
but they are not divine. God holds man towards it.
That's also the crux of the Gospel of liberation of the biblical tradition,
when it comes to exorcism of demons, of evil spirits,
then that's exactly the crucial point - God keeps us from pressure
that is associated with such spirits, forces or magical connections."
- Wolfgang Treitler, theologian
People with personal experiences
The counterpart to observation of nonpresent spirits
is the realization of leaving the own body.
At near-death and other out-of-body-experiences
people experience themselves as spirits.
Experiments prove: through very simple attempts everyone can be moved to
experience his body and his spirit as separated.
Mainstream science didn't look after
the unexplored spectrum of consciousness until lately.
Meditative and praying people around the world share common experiences.
Bruce Lee was one of the intransigent thinkers and not a friend of superstition.
Yet he experienced in detail from a mysterious demon his own time of death.
"Superstition is a name the ignorant gave to their ignorants.
Martial Arts is for protection against the people and against other forces.",
said once his Grandmaster Yip Man.
The legendary president Abe Lincoln
have had a special dream just before his second term of office.
According to his memoir he heard in dreams many people crying at a funeral.
They were talking about a dead president.
With the view from above he then recognized who was in the coffin.
Lincoln's dream points to a life after his own death.
Plato (427–347 BC) was the first who tried to prove the immortality of the soul
using reasoned argument (in his dialogue Phaidon).
There he identified the soul with reason which he regarded to be
independent of the body as a general rule.
Their real home is the Empire of abiding souls and pure spirits from which
they were derived and to which they return after death.
"Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we
are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and
then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe." - Goethe
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The Question for Truth & Reality
"Luck, freedom are negations of reality." - Wilhelm Busch, poet, graphic artist
Truth is a disposition, namely to maintain fidelity to someone or something.
One cannot just believe in nothing and avoid any faith,
simply because one cannot have a disposition towards the world.
This would again be a self-disposition.
Isaac Newton was asked once: "How could it be that such a great mind like you
is interested in a nonsense like astrology?"
Newton answered: "The difference between you and me is that I have studied it."
Some people decide to believe in materialism;
they act like this philosophy would be true.
An answer to the question, if God exists, can only occur
that I act "as if" there's a God, and keep faith with God
in this way and perhaps experience how God keeps faith with me.
This "acting as if" is not at all an excuse, an admission, that one
doesn't "really" believes in that what one believes in supposedly.
Far from it: Like Hans Vaihinger's interpretation, every realization,
especially every scientific realization, is nothing more than acting
"as if" certain models are true for the time being.
The catechism of the Catholic church writes:
"Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil
if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil,
by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life."
Bishop Franz Kamphaus critisizes a "common idea of God nowadays"
which corresponds to "building castles in the air,
dreams of a society without distress and sorrow"
"Since the life of Jesus and his dying on the cross
God cannot be kept out of sorrow. God himself is a person affected.
Sorrow is not a sign of God's absence but of presence."
"What is down here is the same what is above"
- Hermes 'Mercurius' Trismegistus the author of Corpus Hermeticum,
the messenger of Zeus, the patron of astrology and alchemistry in Ancient Egypt,
"the thrice greatest Hermes" - according to Marsilio Ficino:
"the greatest of the philosophers, the greatest of the priests and the kings."
____Wikipedia-Link: Hermes Trismegistus
"From one Soul of the Universe all Souls are derived...
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting."
- Hermes Ἑρμῆς, polymath, philosopher, alchemist ('magician')
& psychopompos (guiding soul to the afterlife)
In Philosophy, the World is everything that makes up reality.
The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.
The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that
he argued that the every-day perception of reality of
the physical world (as described in doxa) is mistaken,
and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia):
an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato distingues between forms and ideas and
imagines two distinct worlds: the sensible world and the intelligible world.
In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht
(World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view
that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions.
Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man ;
its final end is technical application.
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
He saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation;
the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge
about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest
of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood
by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s,
however, suggest the range of available opinion.
"The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in
his influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1922.
This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism,
with its assumption that there is exactly one world,
consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations
that individual people may make of them.
Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different
for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world".
The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are "thrown" willy-nilly
and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms.
His conception of "the world-hood of the world"
was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work Being and Time.
In response, Sigmund Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world,
but a common thought process.
He believed that all the actions of a person is motivated by one thing: lust.
This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.
Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that
metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity
are best analyzed by comparing the world to a range of possible worlds;
a view commonly known as modal realism.
The issue of a society is the missing solidarity.
Doing something good sets off a long-term feeling of happiness.
The shining in the eyes is more joyful than any money.
For a fulfilled life everyone needs a daily allowance of importance for others.
Change is generated through consciousness.
"Who wants to be happy constantly must change oneself constantly" - Confucius
According to Albert Camus a guy called Sisyphos was the happiest man.
The guy who rolls a stone uphill the whole day.
A stone which then rolls back just before the finish line.
After that we would all be happy.
There are many who describe their job as a Sisyphos.
Camus saw Sisyphos as an epitome of a senseless life.
Instead of driving at top speed along the freeway in direction of fulfillment,
we wobble with a tram through life which stops at the most absurd places.
Especially because of that the possibility opens up
to one giving dignity and generosity
to life in conscious appreciation of the absurd. We live a life that can knock us out,
that has frauds, and once when we believe we have understood
the basic rules, it flips us the bird.
But that can lead to something good.
If there is no masterplan, we can hammer out our own.
Jean Paul Sartre saw it similarly.
He asked the question for the meaning of existence
and made of it a separate philosophical movement- existentialism.
In his midpoint stands the existent human, with all his conditions,
if enamoured, worried, or furious,
who understands oneself as free and self-determined.
We can do what we want, because
we define ourselves only by our action and behavior.
Why do we believe and how can we give reasons for it?
What's the cause for existence?
The old Greeks at that time asked themselves questions about reality and
the existence of human being.
If I am, there must be someone who ensures that I exist.
Nietzsche thought that meanwhile the people have destroyed through their behavior
the idea that a heavenly gene technician wanted to create a super race.
So that we don't deserve to believe in a God who created us at his image.
We always tried to unite science and faith.
Thomas of Aquin layed out ready an unbeatable God-evidence:
Nothing comes from nothing, 0=0, 1=1.
Because of the fact that we and the world exists,
that is to say that everything some time or other must have been created.
Immanuel Kant asked himself if God is too inconceivable to prove his existence.
These days it is easier to deny God than
to accept a celestial power that cannot be explained scientifically.
Now that we are able to act like God,
an odd desire for religious fulfillment stirs in ourselves on many occasions.
Some flee to eastern fortune cookie wisdoms,
the others do wellness until the doctor arrives.
It is human nature. We want to believe.
We need a cause that our away game on earth was not in vain.
In Stalinism faith was banished.
And the people were looking for replacement religions.
No matter where it comes from, all along the principles of faith
were easily understandable laws.
With out it a common life would not have been possible.
The principle of criminology is:
Nothing remains a secret. The Vietnam War was a war of
the white and rich man. Based on disputed acoustic
evidence the FBI & HSCA think it possible that a sworn group of
idustrialists were responsible for the assassinations of the Kennedys.
What is Truth?
"It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error
come from one and the same source.
Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error,
because at the same time we do violence to truth." - Goethe
There are various ways to find out the truth.
By polite inquiry, investigators, medical examiners, torture, or by Natriumpentathol.
The question for truth is one of the central problems in philosophy
and was answered differently by various thinkers.
For Arestoteles the result of truth was that as many people as possible are
in agreement with an opinion or assumption.
Even so it must also be proved as universally true.
The monk Thomas of Aquin saw it the same, and after him Kant and Hegel.
The evidence must be raised, accepted by the general public,
only then the Whole become true.
Truth is defined here as an agreement between knowledge and the existent.
Later in dialectic materialism one went into detail and distinguish relativity
and absolute truth. Both form unity, an area of tension,
that serves establishment of the truth.
The absolute truth is: the earth is a sphere. But this truth can be relativized.
The earth is dented on many places by rotation and pole-energy.
But in principle the planet is of course more like a sphere than a disc.
Consequently we always receive an update-truth, a relative truth.
There is no final perpetual truth.
In realism the individual is more the center of attention.
Origin, cultural influences, education, and moral principles
play important parts in understanding the world and its truths.
Does hence every human has his own truth?
Real truth cannot be proved nor against it.
There is probability which is almost sure.
Because there are real things which are really true.
No matter if it is verified or not. The unquestionable evident, also called evidence.
A statement is true if its assertion is concurrent with its reality.
This thought was taken up also in american pragmatism.
A philosophical way by being satisfied with what one has.
Sometimes we do not need evidence, aslong we understand eachother.
The truth of a claim is dependent on
establishing a general consensus only by arguments.
We get along with eachother and thus we can discern the truth.
We mutually know what we mean and what we talk about.
We find a common tenor. And that's the whole truth.
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Human Consciousness
Consciousness is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness,
the ability to experience "feeling", wakefulness,
the understanding of the concept "self",
or the executive control system of the mind.
It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena.
Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note
(e.g. John Searle in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy):
Consciousness in medicine (e.g., anesthesiology)
is assessed by observing a patient's alertness and responsiveness,
and can be seen as
a continuum of states ranging from alert, oriented to time and place,
and communicative, through disorientation, then delirium,
then loss of any meaningful communication, and ending with loss of movement
in response to painful stimulation.
Consciousness in psychology and philosophy
typically means something beyond what
it means for anesthesiology, and may be said in many contexts to imply four characteristics: subjectivity, change, continuity, and selectivity.
Philosopher Franz Brentano has suggested intentionality or aboutness
(that consciousness is about something). However, within the philosophy of mind
there is no consensus on whether intentionality is a requirement for consciousness.
Consciousness is the subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology,
neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Issues of practical concern include how the presence of consciousness
can be assessed in severely ill or comatose people;
whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how it can be measured;
at what point in fetal development consciousness begins;
and whether computers can achieve a conscious state
There are many philosophical stances on consciousness,
including behaviorism, dualism, idealism, functionalism, reflexive monism,
phenomenalism, phenomenology and intentionality, physicalism, emergentism,
mysticism, personal identity, and externalism.
____Wikipedia-Link: Consciousness
Left vs Right
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres – left and right.
This theory of the structure and functions of the mind suggests that
the two different sides of the brain control two different “modes” of thinking.
It also suggests that each of us prefers one mode over the other.
Scientists continue to explore how some cognitive functions tend to be dominated by
one side or the other, that is, how they are lateralized.
Linear reasoning and language functions such as grammar and vocabulary often
are lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain.
Dyscalculia is a neurological syndrome associated with damage
to the left temporo-parietaljunction. This syndrome is associated with poor numeric
manipulation, poor mentalarithmetic skill,
and the inability to either understand or apply mathematical concepts.
In contrast, prosodic language functions, such as intonation and accentuation,
often are lateralized to the right hemisphere of the brain.
The processing of visual and audiological stimuli, spatial manipulation,
facial perception, and artistic ability seem to be functions of the right hemisphere.
There is some evidence that the right hemisphere is more involved in processing novel situations, while the left hemisphere is most involved
when routine or well rehearsed processing is called for.
Other integrative functions, including arithmetic, binaural sound localization,
and emotions, seem more bilaterally controlled.
Experimentation has shown that the two different sides, or hemispheres,
of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking.
The following table illustrates the differences between
left-brain and right-brain thinking:
Left Brain functions Right Brain functions
uses logic______________________uses feeling
detail oriented___________________"big picture" oriented
facts rule______________________imagination rules
words & language_______________symbols & images
present & past__________________present & future
math & _______________________philosophy &
science______________________ religion
can comprehend________________can "get it"
knowing______________________ (i.e. meaning)
acknowledges__________________believes
order_________________________appreciates
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Laws of the Universe
These laws are the foundation of order and growth in the entire universe.
All existing things are subject to these laws.
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation
The best definition of Natural Law seems to be that,
"it is the uniform and orderly method of the omnipotent God.
Unlike any other form of animal life that has been created,
we were given the power of choice or free will;
along with this power came certain responsibilities.
The capacity to choose does not involve freedom
from the consequence of our choice.
The laws or rules which govern every individual are as exact as the laws
which govern the material universe. We can act in accordance with these laws
or we can disregard them, but we cannot in any way alter them.
The law holds us to strict accountability,
and there is not the slightest allowance made for ignorance.
The law of attraction will deliver to us what we do not want as quickly
and as certainly as it will deliver what we do want.
The Law of Relativity
In the study of this law, we find that all things are relative.
All laws are related to each other and correspond with each other.
The laws of the little are the laws of the great. There is no big nor small, fast nor slow, except by comparison. Every law that is a law must be relative to all other laws.
In other words, they must be in harmony, agreement and correspond with each other.
An understanding of this law will give one
the means of solving many of the secrets of nature that seem to be para-doxical.
The much discussed fourth dimension is nothing more nor less than
the dimension of vibration. All rates of vibration are either high or low,
only by comparison with those above or below them.
The Law of Vibration and Attraction
We live in an ocean of motion. We are always moving toward something and
it is always moving toward you... it's action and attraction.
This is where our intuitive factor is used.
We can use it to pick up other people's vibrations.
When we consciously become aware of
vibrations, we call them feelings. When we feel bad, we can change
our feelings by thinking good thoughts. When we pick up a bad feeling from
another person we know they must be thinking disturbing thoughts.
We must not let their negative vibrations affect our way of thinking.
Our thoughts are vibrations that we send off into the universe. When we concentrate
the vibrations are stronger. Our thoughts are cosmic waves of energy that penetrate
all time and space. Our thought controls the vibration our physical body is in.
Disease is a body that is not at ease. Health is a body at ease.
The Law of Polarity
Everything in the universe has its opposite.
There would be no inside to a room without an outside.
If we referred to this side of the sheet of paper that these words are writen on
as the top, then the other side would be the bottom.
We have a right and left side to your body, a front and back.
Every up has a down and every down has an up.
The law of polarity not only states that everything has an opposite...
it is equal and opposite. If it was 3 feet from the floor up on to the table,
it would be 3 feet from the table down to the floor.
If it is 150 miles from LA to Vegas, by law it must be 150 miles from Vegas to LA;
It could not be any other way.
The Law of Rhythm
The law of rhythm embodies the truth that everything is moving to and from,
flowing in and out, swinging backward and forward. There is a high and a low tide.
Everything is flowing, both in and out, in accordance with the law.
There is always a reaction to every action.
Something must advance when anything retreats;
Something must rise when anything sinks.
This law governs the movement of the planets in their orbits
and also manifests in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms.
Men and women can observe this law in their mental, physical and emotional states.
The law of rhythm is universal.
This can be observed in the rising and setting of the sun and moon,
ebb and flow of the tides, coming and going of the seasons,
and in the rhythmic swing of consciousness and unconsciousness.
The low feelings are what permit us to enjoy the high feelings.
Reason gives us the ability to choose our free will.
Even when we are on a natural down swing,
we can choose good thoughts with our free will and continue to move up.
The Law of Cause and Effect
Every cause has its effect; every effect, its cause. There is no such thing as chance.
Everything happens according to law.
Nothing in the entire universe ever happens, unless it occurs according to law.
Nothing ever escapes the law.
It is impossible for the human mind to conceive of starting
a new chain of causation, for the simple reason that every effect must have a cause;
and in turn, that cause must have an effect.
Thus, we have the perpetual, never-ending cycle of cause and effect.
Ralph Emerson called the law of cause and effect, the law of laws.
People are very interested in results. Your physical health, your relationships,
the respect you earn, your material income. You must concentrate on the cause,
and the effect will automatically take care of itself. That is how the law works.
The Law of Gender
The law of gender manifests in all things as masculine and feminine.
It is this law that governs what we know as creation.
The word creation is often erroneously used, for, in reality, nothing is ever created.
All new things merely result from the changing of something that was,
into something else that now is.
The law of gender manifests in the animal kingdom as sex.
It also manifests in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms.
Without the dual principle of male and female in all things,
there could not be a difference of potential,
perpetuation of motion, nor a regeneration.
This law is the one which finally closes the cycle and
completes the circle of the seven subsidiary laws under one great law.
This is in truth, the creative law. This law decrees everything in nature is
both male and female. Both are required for life to exist.
This law also decrees that all seeds (ideas are spiritual seeds)
have a gestation or incubation period before they manifest.
In other words, when we build the image in your mind,
a definate period of time must elapse before that image manifests in physical results.
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"Time comes from the future
that doesn't exist,
to the present which has no duration,
and goes into the past
that has ended to persist.“
- Augustinus of Hippo,
philosopher & theologian
Aurelius Augustinus proposed that
the present is a knife edge between
the past and the future and could not
contain any extended period of time.
Thus there can be no doubt
that the world was not created
in time but with time.
An event in time happens after
one time and before another,
after the past and before
the future. But at the time
of creation there could have been
no past, because there was nothing
created to provide the
change and movement which
is the condition of time.
     
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